All electric vehicles?
I guess electrically powered vehicles are coming but seems to me they are presently only a rich person's toy with present technology. By that I mean, they're only good for around town and short trips ...
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Lantley wrote:
I think what's missing in all of this is the internal combustion engine is a dinosaur.
An electric engine is so much more efficient that we can now see the internal combustion method is obsolete!
Yes changing the infrastructure presents a few challenges, but that's the easy part.
Changing everyone's mindset will be harder than the actual physical / scientific changes.
We currently have the knowledge to make electric cars reality.
Implementing those changes will take time. But the days of the internal combustion engine are numbered.
No doubt the electric motor itself is vastly superior - just look at all the heavy equipment in the world: mining trucks, locomotives, cruise ships, military ships. Most of the time the actual wheels / props are driven by multi-phase electric motors.
However, the challenge is power density in batteries. IC engines are at the end of their run, but electric energy storage is at its infancy.
I know we can get a Tesla that goes 500 miles, but that takes $100k. Where-as a $15k Yaris also gets 500 miles. The day battery prices drop to the point where say for $20k you could get a sub-compact EV with 500 miles range, is when IC engines are truly dead.
